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NFL official unhappy with UFC's promotion on Super Bowl media day

Today UFC reporter Megan Olivi is walking around the Super Bowl media day and interviewing NFL stars and having them pose with the UFC belt. Apparently, an NFL official at the event was not happy with it and originally asked them to leave:

Super Bowl Media Day is the NFL's show and while it credentials "reporters" from Nickelodeon (there was a guy dressed as a superhero), Spain (there was a guy dressed as Waldo) and Entertainment Tonight (um, self-explanatory) — it doesn't like anyone infringing on its event. So when an NFL official spotted a woman and a camera crew walking around the Prudential Center floor asking some Broncos to pose with the title belt, that wasn't going to fly.

"What is that?" the NFL official asked.

"The UFC title belt," the woman responded. "Want to hold it?"

Turns out the NFL official — Dennis Kayser, Senior Director of On-Field Operations for the league — didn't. He then politely asked the UFC folks to leave.

"We don't want this around here," he said. "This is wrestling stuff, right? Yeah, we don't want that associated with us and this event. This is the NFL."

Co-promotion: Precisely the reason why Zuffa decided to have their Super Bowl PPV in the same city as the big game. Can't knock them for trying. Especially with their broadcast partner, FoX, having the rights to the game.

Couldn't get the original article to open but it seems like they weren't actually kicked out in the long run and a nit of a misunderstanding ? Both being part of the Fox sports end of things can't see why they couldn't work together.

Funny thing is it sounds like the NFL guy was under the impression that the UFC was the same as pro wrestling

Couldn't get the original article to open but it seems like they weren't actually kicked out in the long run and a nit of a misunderstanding ? Both being part of the Fox sports end of things can't see why they couldn't work together.

Funny thing is it sounds like the NFL guy was under the impression that the UFC was the same as pro wrestling